CEI: Croatian wins Trieste Contemporanea design prize

Ena Priselec refashioned old coffee grinder

(ANSAmed) - Trieste, July 11 - Croatian designer Ena Priselec
has won the Central European Initiative (CEI) Prize in the tenth
international design contest at Trieste Contemporanea 2012 with
a project to refashion a coffee grinder.

The nearly 200 participants were asked to identify a
functional object from the recent past demonstrating design
skill and come up with an idea for its redefinition or reuse.

Priselec chose an electric coffee grinder and proposed a return
to manual grinding in the name of quality and simplicity.

"The theme was intended as a proposal to think countertrend,
starting from the fact that we live in a saturated consumer
market where design is everywhere and nowhere," said curator and
journalist Susanna Legrenzi, who coordinates the contest.
The international jury comprised Giulio Cok (Trieste
Contemporanea), Barbara Fabro (CEI), Emanuela Marassi (artist),
Marco Petroni (curator, Fondazione Plart, Naples), Maja Vardjan
(curator, Museum of Architecture and Design, Ljubljana), Janka
Vukmir (curator, Institute for Contemporary Art, Zagreb).

The top prize, named after contest founder Gillo Dorfles,
has gone to Italian duo Fabio Gigone and Angela Gigliotti, and
the Beba Foundation of Venice prize, awarded to a young
participant, to Romanian designer Catalin Nicolae Ursoiu. The
young Turkish designer Meltem Özçaki and the Estonian designer
Raili Keiv received special mentions. (ANSAmed).